Confirmed: Obama related to Palin, Limbaugh

posted at 5:46 pm on October 13, 2010 by Allahpundit

The latest discovery from Ancestry.com shows that President Obama is related to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, one of his most vocal critics, as well as to frequent political opponent Sarah Palin.

Obama and Palin are 10th cousins, connected through their common ancestor John Smith. Obama and Limbaugh are 10th cousins, once removed, through common ancestor Richard Terrell.

Other political adversaries also share family ties – the study also found that Sen. Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader in the Senate, is also related to Palin – as well as to conservative commentator Ann Coulter. All three are related through John Lathrop, who was exiled in 1634 to colonial Massachusetts after becoming a minister of an illegal independent church in England.

And a leadership gene clearly runs through Samuel Hinckley’s family, because Obama, Palin, and former president George W. Bush are all related through common ancestor Hinckley, who was among the first wave of settlers in America in the 1600s. Obama and Bush are 11th cousins; Palin and Bush are 11th cousins as well.

So Palin and Obama are related through two different ancestors? If we trace that back, we might finally isolate the gene for charisma. As a noted beta male, let me assure you: I’ll pay any price.

Actually, the funniest angle on this dopey story comes from reader Brian R, who turned it into a goof on Birthers. Here’s §338-18 of the Hawaiian Revised Statutes governing disclosure of personal records:

Disclosure of records. (a) To protect the integrity of vital statistics records, to ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper administration of the vital statistics system, it shall be unlawful for any person to permit inspection of, or to disclose information contained in vital statistics records, or to copy or issue a copy of all or part of any such record, except as authorized by this part or by rules adopted by the department of health.

(b) The department shall not permit inspection of public health statistics records, or issue a certified copy of any such record or part thereof, unless it is satisfied that the applicant has a direct and tangible interest in the record. The following persons shall be considered to have a direct and tangible interest in a public health statistics record:

(1) The registrant;

(2) The spouse of the registrant;

(3) A parent of the registrant;

(4) A descendant of the registrant;

(5) A person having a common ancestor with the registrant;

Dude — Rush can request the birth certificate.

Here he is today semi-jokingly disclaiming any familial ties to The One. Click the image to watch.

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This is to funny. Even though Obama is half white, he seems to distance himself from that fact. He only seems to reference it, when it came to health care, and his mothers cancer, or to throw his grandmother under the bus, for her racism.

I’m betting Obama is having a harder time with this, than any of his *gasp* white relations who are so well known as well. LOL

Oh, brother. And Mrs. Obama has MSNBC’s Tingles tingling again with her “When I campaign around the country, I think of all the little children I’ve met. And that’s what this election is about. The little children.”

I have been amazed and amused at times to find out who I am related to. For example, my Father and Neil Armstrong were 3rd cousins. Somehow, the link to that famous person has no bearing on who I am, what I do, or how I am treated. Nor should it.

This is just another piece of trivial information chucked out by the left to try and sway a few people.

Remember during the campaign it was revealed Obama is related to Dick Cheney? Obama mentioned it a couple times in what was supposed to be a humorous way but you could tell he didn’t like it, not even a little.

We humans, all of us, are related from the beginning of our world. I hope my long, long, long, goes on and on, family history gives me the brain cells to know right from wrong what is happening to my country.
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Wow. I’ve heard some wild from the birthers, but this is really out there.

JeffWeimer on October 13, 2010 at 6:08 PM

Strike you as odd how detached he is from those two blood relatives of Barack Sr., when he wrote a book about Obama Sr.??? If he was closer to them, he could find out so much more about the Dreams FROM his father.

I think it’s neat, tracing ancestry. My favorite distant relation is Pope John Paul II, he was my maternal grandfather’s second cousin. Most of my family didn’t hop onto the boats over here until fairly recently, but it’s neat to think of who else I’d be remotely related to.

I too think Rush should request the long form, just to tweak some feathers. After all, they’re family, and what else is family for? : )

Obama and Palin are 10th cousins, connected through their common ancestor John Smith. Obama and Limbaugh are 10th cousins, once removed, through common ancestor Richard Terrell.

This is about the stupidest thing I have ever heard!

By my rough calculation, this means they have 1 in 1024 ancestors in common. 1/2 to the 9th power. And that would be only if none of their ancestors ever ‘slept around’ if you know what I mean. Truly this is astoundingly dumb.

Obama and Palin are 10th cousins, connected through their common ancestor John Smith. Obama and Limbaugh are 10th cousins, once removed, through common ancestor Richard Terrell.

How do they even know for sure that this ‘John Smith’ ever even had any children? Maybe he was sterile or impotent and his wife had a boy friend, maybe several. This is so dumb it makes my teeth hurt. Less than three weeks before a big election and this complete stupidity?